Evidences for Contribution to Society
Contents
1 . Organizing International Women's Day Themed Events for Wacko 4
2. Deodorant and Tampon Fundraising for Women in Need
3. Culture Model Presentation Assignment for Intercultural Awareness
4. Turkey Presentation Assignment for Career Design
5. The feedback from my classmates and Ties about Turkey presentation
6. Video Assignment for Human Technology Interaction
7 . Essay Assignment for Human Technology Interaction
8. Self Assesment
Organizing International Women's Day Themed Events for Wacko 4
Why did I add this to this theme?
I took part in the Women's Day organizing team. We had many meetings with this team and as a result we have prepared a pretty nice Women's Day themed program for Wacko 4. First, we introduced Women's Day as an organizing team that day. Later, Montserrat Fragoso Fonseca, a guest speaker from Mexico, gave a speech about feminism and talked about her own life story. Our next activities were self defense lesson with Nathalie and round table conversation. In this round table conversation, we talked about difficulties of menstruation and catcalling.
At the meetings during the process of organizing Wacko 4, I talked about my experiences in the women's movement in Turkey and contributed to the formation of this day by putting forward ideas such as a round table conversation. These events that we organized as a team led my classmates to learn about feminism, to learn how to effectively defend themselves in the face of violence, and to take a closer look at the problems they experienced as women.
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Deodorant and Tampon Fundraising for Women in Need
Why did I this to this theme?
Period poverty, a major problem experienced by women around the world, is the lack of access to menstrual products, sanitation facilities. Those who experience period poverty may have various physical health risks. With this donation campaign, we delivered tampons and deodorant to women in need, and reduced menstrual poverty to a certain extent.
Culture Model (Richard Lewis) Presentation Assignment for Week 5 of Intercultural Awareness
Why did I add this assignment to this theme?
I believe that I contributed to the personal and professional development of my classmates by making this presentation. In this presentation we explained the cultural model of Richard Lewis. After visiting 135 countries and working in more than 20 of them Lewis analyzed the world’s cultures based on behavior rather than nationality or religion. According to him, people living in certain cultures can be divided into three groups, and he named these 3 categories Linear-active, Multi-active and Reactive. These categories differ in terms of exhibiting certain behaviors. For instance, people in the linear active group confront with logic and prioritize truth before diplomacy, while those in the multi-active group confront emotionally and their emphasis on truth can show flexibility. Also those in the reactive group never confronts, and we see that there is diplomacy over truth in these cultures.
I contributed to my classmates' better understanding of the behavior of people from different cultures by explaining these behavioral differences between cultures and giving some examples in our presentation. Additionally, after listening to this presentation, they are now more likely to notice these behavioral differences when interacting with people from different cultures. Thus, they will perceive these behavioral differences less personally and they will be able to develop better relationships with people who have different cultural backgrounds. Apart from these, we had to use at least 2 cultural models in the essay we wrote for the intercultural awareness course. With the presentation we made, we provided a resource for our classmates who will use this model in their article.
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Turkey Presentation Assignment for Week 6 of Career Design
Why did I add this assignment to this theme?
In this presentation, Esra and I explained Turkey's history, food, popular cities and touristic places to our classmates. After the presentation, we answered the questions of both my classmates and Ties. These questions were about Turkey's current political situation and its impact on our career. I believe that I contributed to the personal and professional development of my classmates by making this presentation. Because we have provided our friends with information about various aspects of Turkish culture. At the same time, after the presentation, we presented a concrete examples to our friends about how the economic crisis in Turkey actually affected the professions we chose and our future goals in terms of careers. We examined the importance of inheritances as one of the factors affecting career in our lesson. The family, culture and economic conditions are determinative on our career to a certain extent. By giving examples from our own story, we enabled our friends to see concretely the theoretical knowledge we were taught in career design course.
The feedback I received from my classmates and Ties about Turkey presentation
My classmates Karole, Jeny and Anneloues said that they learned things they never knew about Turkey thanks to this presentation. Also, Jeny said that homophobic attitudes in Turkey exist in a similar way in Korea. She also stated that my mention of homophobia in Turkey inspired her and she said that perhaps she could set the subject of her essay for an intercultural awareness course as the effects of homophobia on individuals in countries such as Turkey and Korea. Lastly, Ties liked my statement, which I mentioned in the presentation, “it is a privilege to choose the profession you want”. On this occasion, he again emphasized that various factors such as the country or culture we live in play a role in our career choice.
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Video Assignment for Human Technology Interaction
Why did I add this assignment to this theme?
In this video, I explained the effects of fake news on public health and what can be done to reduce the negative effects of fake news on health. If you want to watch the video completely, you can click on this link (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PC2fnMYkUJ_BFC4eintYPrZGYftkWBqs/view?usp=sharing).
For this video, I asked 3 people about the effects of fake news on social media on mental and physical health. Thus, I encouraged them to research and think about this subject. Also, my friend Annelous, who gave me feedback in this video, stated that thanks to the information in my video, she realized that fake news has negative aspects on our health that she had never thought of before.
Essay Assignment for Human Technology Interaction
THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE ON BODY IMAGE
Body image is associated with person's thoughts, perceptions, feelings about their own body and is a concept that usually includes body size estimation, evaluation of body attractiveness, and emotions associated with body shape and size (Grogan, 1999). There are several factors that affect people's body image, such as environment, nutrition, and exercise. One of them is undoubtedly social media.
Social media, which includes many platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Whatsapp, is becoming more and more popular today. According to Kepios analysis (Digital, 2022), there are more than 4.62 billion social media users worldwide in January 2022, which shows that more than half of the world now uses social media (58.4%). Given the growing popularity of social media, researchers have begun to explore the possible consequences of these new media formats on body image.
Besides this, social media has a number of unique features that can affect body image. First and foremost, social media not only features models and celebrities, but also users themselves (Fardouly& Vartanian, 2016). Second, people often present an idealized version of themselves on social media, upload their own most compelling images and remove images they think are not attractive (Manago et al., 2008). Third, people often post other content and comments about the look on social media, which can affect how users feel about their appearance (Fardouly& Vartanian, 2016). Finally, although social media includes images of a number of different people, often people use it to interact with their peers (Hew, 2011). Research has indicated that comparison of peers with appearance is particularly effective for body image (Carey et al.,2014). Also, social comparison with celebrities on social media is associated with females’ body image design (Ho et al., 2016). The results of another research (Wallis, 2015) showed that participants who checked their social media frequently do more social comparison; and then, who do more social comparison and check their social media accounts more have low body image satisfaction.
I am also a very active user of social media. For example, in an assignment where we looked at our phone screen time for a week, my screen time that week was 3 hours 30 minutes, even though I tried to reduce my screen time that week. At the same time, I spent the most time on was social media applications such as Instagram, Twitter, Youtube. For this reason, I am having an experience similar to the participants in Wallis' (2015) experiment. In other words, I check my social media accounts a lot during the day and I constantly compare my body with someone's body when I log in. Also, comparing others' bodies with my own both increases my anxiety level and increases my insecurities about my body.
In fact, social comparison is not a negative thing and has even been suggested as a fundamental feature of human social evolution (Gilbert et al.,1995). However, I can see more people on social media than I will encounter in normal life. It can be uncomfortable to make social comparisons with so many people. Studies of social comparison on social networks show that these comparisons typically result in decreases in subjective well-being. (Tiggemann et al., 2018). In the offline challenge, I realized that this situation affects my subjective well-being as much as it affects other people. Because during that day when I was away from the phone, I was more satisfied with my body features. My anxiety and constant vigilance had decreased. Instead of thinking about what was ugly in my body, I was more in the moment and was able to interact more with people.
In addition to making social comparisons with more people, we are now more often exposed to idealized images of others and compare ourselves to photoshopped unreal images. This situation causes many people, including myself, to no longer like their body. My friend Anneloes, sums it up like this: “ Because of social media we compare ourselves to others a lot. Because we can sit behind our phone looking at all the seeminlgy "perfect" pictures of others endlessly. We have apps like photoshop now, everyone can make themselves look beautiful. But this creates a fake look and others get the idea that they don't look half like that and that makes them insecure.” At the same time, my friend Volkan offers us a different perspective on this subject as a man. He explained that social media not only affects women's body images, but also that the use of social media has significant effects on men's bodies: “Men who are often promote on social media have muscular bodies. Men who cannot achieve this muscular appearance due to lack of time or financial means are mentally affected by these images, become insecure and become depressed.”
Besides, it would be wrong to say that social media only affects our body images in a negative way. In recent years, the "body positivity movement" has become widespread and popular through social media. The body positivity movement emphasizes inclusivity against mainstream media images of idealized female or male bodies, and social media accounts associated with this movement display bodies of all shapes and sizes. My sister Ahsen explains the positive effect of social media on her body with the following sentences: “ I've been following a Tumblr account for a long time called Stop Hating Your Body (https://stophatingyourbody.tumblr.com/archive). Through this account, it was liberating for me to see that there is not just one body type, but all marginalized bodies also exist and are valuable. I can now accept my weight and stretch marks as they are.”
In conclusion, I can say that the use of social media has both positive and negative effects on our body image. Comparing my own body with photos of filtered or thin bodies that I have seen on social media increases my anxiety level and my insecurities about my body. Also, reading body positivity related content or seeing all kinds of body photos shared on more inclusive social media accounts also reminds me that I don't have to follow the norms and all kinds of bodies can exist. Finally, based on these inferences, I have set some goals to make my body image more positive in the future. When I spend a lot of time on social media, I inevitably see a lot of people and compare their bodies with my own, which increases my anxiety. Therefore, I aim to limit my social media time to 1 hour. In the 1 hour I will spend on social media, I will also look more at the content of accounts related to the body positivity movement.
References
Archive. (2010). STOP HATING YOUR BODY. Retrieved March 18, 2022, from https://stophatingyourbody.tumblr.com/archive
Carey, R. N., Donaghue, N., & Broderick, P. (2014). Body image concern among Australian adolescent girls: The role of body comparisons with models and peers. Body image, 11(1), 81-84.
Digital 2022. (2022, February 9). We Are Social UK. Retrieved March 18, 2022, from https://wearesocial.com/uk/blog/2022/01/digital-2022/
Fardouly, J., & Vartanian, L. R. (2016). Social media and body image concerns: Current research and future directions. Current opinion in psychology, 9, 1-5.
Gilbert, P., Price, J., & Allan, S. (1995). Social comparison, social attractiveness and evolution: How might they be related?. New ideas in Psychology, 13(2), 149-165.
Grogan, S. (1999). Body image: Understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women and children. London: Routledge.
Hew, K. F. (2011). Students’ and teachers’ use of Facebook. Computers in human behavior, 27(2), 662-676.
Ho, S. S., Lee, E. W., & Liao, Y. (2016). Social network sites, friends, and celebrities: The roles of social comparison and celebrity involvement in adolescents’ body image dissatisfaction. Social Media+ Society, 2(3), 2056305116664216.
Manago, A. M., Graham, M. B., Greenfield, P. M., & Salimkhan, G. (2008). Self-presentation and gender on MySpace. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 29(6), 446-458.
Tiggemann, M., Hayden, S., Brown, Z., & Veldhuis, J. (2018). The effect of Instagram “likes” on women’s social comparison and body dissatisfaction. Body image, 26, 90-97.
Wallis, J. M., & Kozar, J. M. (2015, November). The effects of social media on the body satisfaction of adolescent and young adult females. In International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings (Vol. 72, No. 1). Iowa State University Digital Press.
While writing this essay, I got the perspectives of 3 people about how social media affects their body image. Therefore, I got them to think about this issue and do research. In addition, my friend Annelous, who gave me feedback on my essay assignment, said that after reading my essay, she learned new information about social media and body image that she didn't know, and she looks at this topic differently now.
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